The piercing air raid sirens sounded, and a large number of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the station.

It's just that even the well-trained soldiers still look chaotic when faced with threats from the air, and they are only better than ordinary people...

Bombing, this kind of thing has been around for a long time, but the massive bombing has been going on since the First World War. During World War I, the increasing air power of the Allied and Allied powers gave both sides more tools to respond to air threats.

Not only the means of response, but also the reaction of the soldiers on both sides in the face of air threats are the kind that have been experienced in a hundred battles.

However, this was not the case for the Japanese, although Japan also paid equal attention to how to deal with the threat from the air, especially after the army bomber group annihilated the Russian cavalry division in Russia, which almost made Japan shudder―――――― because it was obviously the only country that was most likely to clash with China.

For this reason, the Japanese side conducted a large number of related exercises, and at the same time purchased some equipment for air defense from Britain and France. For example, anti-aircraft artillery fire is anti-aircraft machine guns, and there are air defense alarms, etc...

It's just that training can't catch up with actual combat after all, and from the border conflict to the present, although the aviation units of the Wehrmacht have also carried out ground strike missions many times, they are rare, or more precisely, they have basically never come. Therefore, although training in this area has been carried out in the past, in fact, there is no actual combat experience at all.

Even if there was a lot of training and drills in the past, now the plane really flew overhead. They also panicked.

Of course, compared to the North Korean people on the ground who were stupid and stunned, looking up at those 'big birds' in the sky. The reaction of these people is quite reliable...

"Hell, quick, get them down!" After looking up at the group of bombers in the sky, and stroking the steel helmet that was almost falling with his hand, a Japanese officer with a mustache said to the soldier beside him.

"Yes!" When several soldiers heard the order, they immediately ran to an anti-aircraft machine gun surrounded by sandbags, and soon one soldier pointed his gun at the bomber above the air. Two other soldiers were in charge of helping to reload the ammunition...

After aiming at a bomber in the air, the soldier in charge of operating the machine gun pulled the trigger and was very fast. A long string of tongues of fire erupted from the muzzle of the gun!

They were accompanied by air defense units in other corners of the city, and under their operation, a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns opened fire in unison. It's just because it's the first time it's a real battle. Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be some ......... in terms of accuracy And although the Gowen Sanbu outside has not been able to attack Pyongyang. But for the first time, the shelling almost never stopped. Even though most of the shells actually landed on the outskirts of Pyongyang, some of them still landed in the city, causing some losses to the Koreans and Japanese in the city...

Among them, the facilities related to air defense also have a certain loss, and there are not many air defense equipment in Pyongyang, so ...

Despite the quick reaction of the Japanese, in fact, the losses inflicted on the bomber group at high altitude. But it can be described as very small.

And at this time, the bomber swarm in the air. But they have already begun to carry out bombing missions...

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"Let's start...", ignoring the fire below, Gao Jun, who was sitting in the driver's cab, spoke.

When he said this, Gao Jun's heart was more or less uncomfortable. Although he has carried out many bombing missions in the past, Gao Jun can even boast that no less than 100 people died at the hands of their crew!

However, in the past, they were all purely military missions, and they were all aimed at some enemies, and even some of them could only be regarded as accidental injuries. However, this time it was different, this time they were bombing a city, and it is conceivable that this bombing mission may destroy many enemies, but in the end, the most dead must be the civilians in the city...

Of course, Gao Jun also knows very well that if he wants to save the 17th Army and the 33rd Army, there seems to be only one way. But what Gao Jun couldn't understand was that they could blow up a hole in the Japanese encirclement and help the besieged 17th and 33rd armies come out, so why did they have to bomb Pyongyang, an ordinary city with a large population?

It's not just Gao Jun who can't figure it out, but even everyone else can't figure it out.

After all, they are soldiers, not devils after all...

It's just that this time the order from above was issued very strictly, they couldn't disobey the order, and if they wanted to save the Seventeenth Army and the Thirty-third Army, it seemed that there was only one way, so although they were very helpless, Gao Jun and they could only nod and take this task...

In fact, the Ministry of Defense has never thought of this problem.

Use incendiary bombs to burn a hole in the Japanese encirclement, so that the 17th Army and the 33rd Army can naturally escape from this opening easily. The strategic intentions of the Japanese army were bound to be declared bankrupt.

The question is, does incendiary bombs alone really work?

If the incendiary bombs really had such great power, then the army that drove the United Nations forces all the way back from the Yalu River to the 38th parallel and even occupied Pyongyang for a time when they were in North Korea would have failed long ago.

In other words, incendiary bombs are useful, but it's hard to say how useful they are in positional warfare. What's more, the number of bombers in the hands of the Wehrmacht is very small, and it can't be compared with the United Nations forces back then, and the incendiary bombs in their hands are also pitiful.

So...

Instead of burning positions, it is better to burn cities ...

Many of the Japanese fortifications around Pyongyang were reinforced concrete, and the rest were mostly civil fortifications, and incendiary bombs would surely burn many Japanese soldiers. However, it will be difficult to keep the entire position burning until it is reduced to ashes.

At least for the time being, the number of incendiary bombs in the hands of the Wehrmacht is definitely insufficient. But what about Pyongyang?

As an Oriental city with a long history, Pyongyang has a large number of wooden buildings. Think of Tokyo in World War II, where the Americans were able to ruin the whole of Tokyo by dropping a few incendiary bombs.

There are many factors to this, such as wind direction, but the more important point is that the city is almost entirely made of wood. Ideal for combustion. Moreover, the fire protection measures in many parts of the city are also very backward, and there is almost no way to face the flames falling from the sky.

Pyongyang and Tokyo also have a lot of similarities. Although Pyongyang is definitely not as large as Tokyo. On the other hand, as a city with some history in the East, Pyongyang's fire protection measures are more backward than Tokyo's, and there are a lot of wooden buildings. A fire burned in the city. It can even burn an entire city to the ground...

Compared with the plan to bomb the encirclement, it is clear that this plan has a higher success rate.

What's more, North Korea is located in the northern hemisphere, and Pyongyang's climate has always been relatively dry, and it has not rained for a long time recently. All these kinds of things have created extremely favorable conditions for this bombing mission.

It can even be said that if Pyongyang is not chosen, it will live up to almost all of the above conditions.

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Inside the magazine, a loaded incendiary bomb was dropped. These weapons, which had just been successfully tested, fell to the ground with a sharp whistling sound. Almost at the moment of the explosion. It ignited everything around it, including the air...

And the Korean people and Japanese soldiers in the explosion range were burned into fireballs in the first place...

The people who were burned into fireballs ran and cried, begging for help from those around them. However, at such a time, there is no one who can help them...

Because even they themselves can't protect themselves...

As a large number of incendiary bombs fell, block by block was engulfed in flames...

Standing in a church in the city of Pyongyang, watching the bombs falling from the sky, a white priest who looked to be over 50 years old clutched the cross on his chest with both hands, and looked at the tragedy in front of him with a pale face.

Not long ago, he witnessed an incendiary bomb fall on a street where he usually preached. In just an instant, the entire neighborhood was covered in flames, and even a few people who wanted to run out of the street were engulfed by the flames that followed, and in just a moment, they turned into fireballs.

They struggled and wailed until they couldn't run anymore...

The priest could even recognize that one of them was a child, a child who he always liked to follow him when he preached...

"God, is this a weapon that the Chinese got from the devil..."

Looking at the whole city, where flames were falling, the priest couldn't help but tremble.

As far as his eyes could see, clusters of flames bloomed as those black dots fell. It's just that this beautiful flame, but I don't know how many lives have been devoured...

While the nuns in the church were busy making a mess, the priest was standing in the bell tower of the minaret watching the horror of air raids across Pyongyang. The priest suddenly heard a scream coming from above his head.

Looking up at the black dot that was falling, the priest clutched the cross on his chest tightly and prayed with the most devout attitude in his life...

A few seconds later, the church, like the rest of Pyongyang, was on fire...

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Under the bombardment of the bomber group, the small half of the city burned. In this case, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire in Pyongyang also suffered heavy losses. If at the beginning, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire had also knocked down two bombers, then as the bombing unfolded, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire on the ground could no longer pose any threat to the bomber group...

At the same time, listening to the report coming back from outside, Utsunomiya Taro and the others who were hiding in the bomb shelter couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Although the Japanese forces in the city had tried to stop the flames as fast as possible, Pyongyang's firefighting measures were too backward. Even at this time, even the North Koreans rushed out to help, but they could not stop the fire, and because at least ninety percent of the buildings in Pyongyang were made of wood, the fire was still spreading―――――― although the North Koreans hated the Japanese very much. But at this time, I am afraid that they hate the Chinese even more. After all, it is their home that is burning now, and those who are burned into a fireball are almost all their compatriots and families...

And in such a situation, it seems that there is no point in continuing to pursue the grievances with the Japanese.

When the Koreans came out, the Japanese who were trying to stop the fire were also stunned. They are accustomed to the fear and hatred of North Koreans on weekdays, but now North Koreans suddenly come out to help, and they really can't get used to it.

Anyway, though. It's also good to have one more man in this situation...

Therefore, the Japanese did not stop this behavior, but worked with the Koreans to extinguish the fire. But they don't know that all their actions can be said to be futile...

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"Sue sù Matsuda. Stop the spread of the fire no matter what, do you understand? ”

Hearing this, Utsunomiya Taro stood up from his seat and said to his subordinates with full of energy.

If Pyongyang is really burned to the ground. Then it seems that he, the commander of the Korean Front, does not need to continue. Of course. None of this matters, the most important thing is that if Pyongyang is burned down, then what else will they use to stop the Chinese troops outside the city? This, I'm afraid that's what Utsunomiya Taro is most worried about.

"Yes!"

Hearing Utsunomiya Taro's order, the officer spoke out loud.

At the same time, another general saw that Utsunomiya Taro looked anxious, and he comforted him on the side. "Don't worry, there won't be anything. Didn't you already report it just now, the Chinese just came with more than a hundred bombers this time. I believe that it will be over without bombing..."

As Japan's greatest enemy, China is naturally the object of study by the Japanese military. Especially after the annihilation of a cavalry division of Soviet Russia, China's bomber units were also the research objects of the Japanese army, and they were also one of the main research objects.

It is precisely because of this relationship that these Japanese know that more than 100 bombers can't sustain much bombing at all. This can be seen from the sporadic explosions outside, but...

Just when Utsunomiya Taro nodded, as if accepting the remarks.

Gao Jun and others who have completed the mission have begun to return, but more bombers that have not yet been put into the bombing mission continue to lower their altitude, and then slowly open the magazine on the fuselage that has not been opened...

Almost instantly, a large amount of fuel was swayed out of the magazine.

If I have to say, there are some later generations, those who sprinkled water from the air to extinguish the fire.

What these bombers, however, did was fuel the fire below...

The neighborhoods and buildings that had been burning badly because of the incendiary bombs suddenly burned even more severely than the original ones after encountering the fuel.

Of course, this is not the main purpose, but the larger purpose is to increase the area of burning...

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It's not just the places that have already burned up, the real purpose of those bombers is those places that haven't burned yet.

After a ton of fuel was dropped, a large number of neighborhoods that were not ignited by incendiary bombs were drenched with fuel―――――― it should be noted that the locations where these fuel spills are usually located very close to the explosion points of those incendiary bombs...

Because of this, the fuel can easily be ignited by the flames set off by incendiary bombs. In a short time, many places were burned into a sea of flames by the nearby flames because of the fuel, and those who had not had time to escape, or who were trying to put out the fire, were almost all engulfed in flames.

The worst ones are those who happened to be doused with fuel, and these people can be said to be the worst to die...

And with the action of the army bomber group, the fire became bigger and bigger, and in the end, it was almost uncontrollable.

Not to mention the Koreans and Japanese who witnessed such a scene, even Gao Jun and others, who were about to return in the air, also felt shocked...

Looking at the burning city beneath him, feeling the baking sensation that seemed to be felt even at a height of hundreds of meters, and the cries and screams coming from the ground, Gao Jun couldn't help but murmur in the cabin. "What the hell did we do..."

In the end, even a few bombers who had not yet dropped their fuel could not help but stop this action.

After all, it is one thing to carry out combat missions, but this kind of thing ......... No matter how you look at it, it looks like you're slaughtering a city.

Therefore, after circling for a while, the bomber group began to return in twos and threes, although the rack bombers had not yet carried out their mission, but at this time no one seemed to care about such a thing.

On the ground, although the Japanese and Koreans tried to stop the fire, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and by the end of the day, the fire spread almost throughout the city.

At this point, this fire is no longer something anyone can stop, and even Utsunomiya Taro and others, who hid in the bomb shelter early, were trapped in the bomb shelter because the fire spread to the exit...

The thick black smoke from the burning of the city floated over the city, forming a black cloud, like the devil looking down on the city below... (To be continued......)